A great speaker (even with jet-lag), Miriah is well-known for her excellent TEDx and Pop-Tech talks on visualization and has received a host of awards and is listed as one of the top young innovators in MIT Technology Review's TR35.

Please come along to what should be an exciting tour through some of the best applied visualization research of the last decade- we will be done in one hour!

Designing effective visualizations requires a careful consideration of factors beyond aesthetics and functionality — it requires deeply understanding the needs, intuitions, and goals of target users. Visualization design studies are a methodical approach for acquiring this understanding. In this talk I’ll discuss the way we conduct design studies in my lab, which has a focus on designing for domain experts. I’ll also layout some open challenges in design study research along with a several proposed solutions that we’ve developed.